E-Scrap Company, European Smelter Ink Deal

Representatives of Lithuanian aluminum smelter will staff American Retroworks plant in Middlebury, Vermont, as part of a due diligence program and trade partnership.

Good Point Recycling, the television and computer recycling division of American Retroworks Inc., added a new staff member in December. Jonas Kriauciunas, a representative of DeConsus, will be working several different shifts at the Vermont Recycling plant, taking notes and translating Environmental and Safety Management policies for sharing and discussion at the Consus BalticAl smelter in Kaunas, Lithuania.

DeConsus controls the major aluminum refining and smelting concern in Lithuania, which sells primarily to Mercedes Benz in Germany.

"DeConsus wants to recycle more." Kriauciunas states. "We see recycling as the long-term environmental solution for aluminum and other commodities. Electronics are a potential source of aluminum, but we also want to investigate whether our company can provide the best answer for Europe's new WEEE directives."

American Retroworks will assist DeConsus in sourcing clean aluminum scrap from American generators, including floppy and hard drives and printer scrap containing aluminum.

Robin Ingenthron, founder of Good Point Recycling, said, "They approached us about buying e-scrap, which we are very careful about exporting. But when Jonas offered to work in our plant, and learn how it should be done, it became a 'glasnost' opportunity."

Following all applicable U.S. and international laws, Good Point Recycling will prepare and stage container loads of clean, pre-processed material for DeConsus to import. In the future, DeConsus will decide whether to provide more of the demanufacturing and testing at their facility in Kaunas, Lithuania, but American Retroworks will continue to provide domestic hard drive destruction and CRT glass recycling.

DeConsus will also seek to purchase and broker used electronics (not including CRT glass or other illegal exports) from U.S. electronics recyclers.